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TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER 21 - Conference Participation
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This year's exciting conference is supported by EAMT, IAMT, BCS, ITI and
Institute of Linguists.
Aslib is pleased to announce that the programme for the 21st Conference
is as follows:
DAY ONE, 10th November 1999
08.45 Registration
09.45 Introduction by Chair - Chris Pyne (International Communications
Europe, Germany)
Chris Pyne is a Managing Director of International Communications Europe
GmbH, the hub for International Communications' services in Europe.
International Communications is a leading localisation and translation
services provider with offices in the USA, Europe and Asia. It offers
language services across a wide technology spectrum to corporations and
mid-range companies.
09.50 The Language of Change
Dave Stevens (Lernout & Hauspie, Germany)
The companies producing computer and telecommunications hardware and
software, consumer electronics, multimedia entertainment and Internet
solutions need translators who know technical terms as well as
languages. Marketers and brand managers up against the vagaries and
complexities of foreign-culture markets need translation and
localization service providers who understand those cultures and can
advise them how to name and position a product within them.
This paper will discuss:
* the evolution of the global translation and localization market over
the past two decades
* the characteristics of the new translation and localization market
* the emergence of computer aided translation and of Internet
translation tools
* the new demand for terminology creation and management services for
highly technical fields
Dave Stevens is Director of Lernout & Hauspie.
10.30 Multilingual Component Management: Trends and Implications
Stuart Sklair (Multilingual Technology, UK)
This paper will discuss:
* managing the process of authoring, translating and publishing web
content
* integrating component management and translation technology
* the role of HTML and XML
* implications for webmasters, translators and translation agencies
Stuart Sklair is Senior Consultant at Multilingual Technology Ltd (MTL).
His consultancy expertise in Multilingual Document Management comes
from nearly 10 years project experience in translation process
development, translation technology, controlled language authoring, and
document management applications. Previously he worked for Xerox,
firstly as a Translation Process Specialist and later as a Document
Management Consultant. His role at MTL brings together these two main
strands of his career.
11.10 Discussion
11.15 Coffee
11.45 Case Study: Document Management and Localization
Dan Dube (Lighthouse Solutions Inc, USA)
This presentation provides detailed information on two companies
(Cummins Engine and Tweddle Litho Company) that have implemented SGML
document management technology to automate the localisation and delivery
of their information products. This paper will describe:
* a brief background on each company's existing processes and
localisation issues
* the technical approach used to help automate each company's
localisation and production processes
* highlights and statistics that demonstrate the dramatic results of
their implementations, in terms of cost savings and time-to-market for
localised information.
Dan Dube is President and founder of Lighthouse Solutions Inc., a
systems integration and consulting company that specialises in helping
clients implement "automated localisation environments". Dan has 13
years of experience in business process re-engineering and the
implementation of complex information management systems. He led the
implementations of approximately 50 SGML-based document management and
publishing systems around the world in a variety of industries.
12.20 Discussion
12.25 Resource and Workflow Management Support in Teletranslation
Klaus Schubert (Fachhochschule Flensburg, Germany)
Value-added service providers in the technical and business translation
market are increasingly organising themselves in networked teams. They
need dedicated software to support:
* the communication between the provider and the translators, revisers,
machine translation operators, terminologists etc.
* the forwarding and sharing of resources such as glossaries,
terminology databases and translation memories
The talk reports on a joint academic-industrial effort to model
workflows and resource management needs in an integrated software
environment.
Dr Klaus Schubert is Professor of Computational Linguistics and
Technical Translation at Fachhochschule Flensburg. MT, machine-aided
translation, computer-aided terminology management and related issues
are among the interests of the department.
12.55 Discussion
13.00 Lunch and Exhibition
14.30 Introduction by Chair - Olaf-Michael Stefanov (United Nations,
Vienna)
Olaf-Michael Stefanov has been with the UN for 27 years. He is Chief of
the Linguistic Support Service, with an emphasis on technological
innovations, reference and terminology. He assists in the provision of
multi-lingual support aids to language staff, including in-house
translators, editors and interpreters and external contractors.
14.30 Terminology Management in NATO
Ian Jones (SHAPE)
Terminology in NATO is managed in two ways: through the terminology
standardisation programme involving all NATO member countries run by the
Military Agency for Standardization (MAS) and through the joint efforts
of the NATO linguistic services.
This paper will look at:
* how official terminology is controlled within NATO
* how a number of the NATO linguistic services and certain member
nations have now adopted TRADOS Multiterm
* the advantages and disadvantages of such a system
Ian Jones is Chief of Linguistic Services at the Supreme Headquarters
Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE). While managing his own department and
continuing to translate, revise and interpret, he is charge of
linguistic policy within Allied Command Europe (ACE). He represents ACE
on the NATO Terminology Conference and coordinates terminology within
SHAPE. Ian is also Chairman of a Working Group of NATO Trados users
which is endeavouring to set common standards to facilitate exchanges of
data among the linguistic and terminology services.
15.00 Discussion
15.05 Case study: Trados software and trade mark translations for the EU
Cate Avery (Eiger Translations Ltd, UK)
Eiger Translations translates weekly batches of between 100 and 300
trade mark files from four languages into English for the Translation
Centre of the EU. This paper will describe the problems posed by the
project and the solutions found, paying particular attention to:
* file management in an ongoing multi-file project
* moving towards the paperless office by revising on screen
* managing memories as they diverge
* specific difficulties posed by different versions of Translator's
Workbench
Cate Avery became Managing Director of Eiger Translations in 1989. In
May 1998 Eiger was awarded the contract for the translation of trade
marks from four languages into English, for which the use of Trados
software is a central feature.
15.35 Discussion
15.40 Tea
16.00 A Multi-level Framework for Memory-Based Translation Aid Tools
Stelios Piperidis & Christos Malavazos (Institute for Language and
Speech Processing, Greece)
16.30 Discussion
16.35 The Internet and the Single Translator
Janet Carter-Sigglow (Sprachendienst der Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH,
Germany)
The Internet is a lifeline for freelancers or translators working in
small groups, especially those involved with a wide range of scientific
topics as at our research centre. It provides an unimaginable wealth of
information and also links to other language professionals. Translators
should exploit their language skills to extract specialised information
from the Internet:
* economically
* rapidly
* imaginatively
* discerningly
Janet Carter-Sigglow has lectured in the English Department of the
University of Aachen and now works in the Translation Service at the
Central Library of Research Centre Julich.
17.05 Discussion
17.10 Close of Day One
19.00 Evening Reception at the London Dungeon to celebrate the 21st
Conference.
Aslib reserves the right to make changes to the programme without prior
notice.
DAY TWO, 11th November 1999
09.00 Registration for Day Two
09.30 Introduction by Chair - Professor Ruslan Mitkov (University of
Wolverhampton, UK)
Dr Ruslan Mitkov is Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language
Engineering at the School of Languages and European Studies, University
of Wolverhampton. His current research interests are anaphora
resolution, automatic abstracting and machine translation.
09.35 The WWW as a Resource for Example-Based MT Tasks
Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
This paper will look at:
* using the WWW as a free linguistic resource
* WWW is two orders of magnitude larger than the British National Corpus
* rare events in large corpora have become common on the Web
* 87% of ambiguous German compositional compounds are correctly
translated using the WWW
Gregory Grefenstette is Principal Scientist at the Xerox Research Centre
Europe, located in Grenoble, France. He is interested in using shallow
linguistic techniques in order to solve practical natural language
processing problems. He has published "Explorations in Automatic
Thesaurus Generation" (Kluwer, 1994) and edited "Cross Language
Information Retrieval" (Kluwer, 1998). He is currently working on
building very large lexicons.
10.15 The Best of Both Worlds - or will two mongrels ever make a
pedigree
Terence Lewis (Hook & Hatton, UK)
This paper will discuss the author's practical experience of combining
machine translation and translation memory tools as a way of tackling
large-scale translation projects.
This paper will look at:
* MRAT (multiple resources for automating translation)
* MT works out what TM doesn't remember
* ELR (exchangeability of linguistic resources)
* see how it's done - description of a real job
Terence Lewis is the developer of a Dutch-English machine translation
program which he uses to provide specialist language services to
industry through his company Hook & Hatton Ltd. He has published many
articles on language engineering in the UK and abroad. He has spent the
last 2 years studying Java and is currently rewriting his application in
this exciting new programming language.
10.55 Discussion
11.05 Coffee
11.35 Adapting the concept of TM to Authoring Memory for Controlled
Language Writing Environment
Jeffrey Allen (ELDA, France)
This paper will look at:
* adapting Translation Memory (TM) to a new Authoring Memory (AM) tool
* advantages of AM in a Controlled Language writing environment
* disadvantages of AM and TM in workflow environments
* possible future enhancements for AM and TM
Jeffrey Allen has 10 years of experience in language teaching,
translation and the development of applied research technologies in
these fields. He is currently the Technical Manager of the European
Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) Paris. His previous
positions include: research linguist and translation laboratory
supervisor at the Language Technologies Institute / Center for Machine
Translation at the Carnegie Mellon University; trainer and linguistic
specialist of controlled authoring and translation systems at
Caterpillar Inc.
12.05 Discussion
12.10 A Building Blocks Approach to TM
Kevin McTait (UMIST, UK)
The idea of combining translation fragments is not new. Example-Based
Machine Translation is dependent on this principle. This paper will
look at a novel approach that does not rely on linguistic knowledge, but
rather fragments stored in a typical TM database.
This paper will look at:
* translation memory database containing generalised translation
patterns
* translations produced by combining translation patterns
* unit of translation based on human cognitive processes
Kevin McTait is at the Centre for Computational Linguistics, which is
part of the Department of Language Engineering, UMIST, Manchester.
12.40 Discussion
12.45 MABLe: a multilingual authoring tool for business letters
Jeremy Ellman (Sunderland University, UK)
* MABLe is an interactive computer system which allows non-native
speakers of English to construct good quality business letters in
English
* users interact with the system in their own language (currently Greek
and Spanish)
* the approach successfully avoids many of the problems of high quality
machine translation in this domain and initial indications are that the
approach is acceptable in practice for many of the target users
* technologically the approach is distinctive in its integration with
standard commercial software and the storage of virtually all linguistic
data in a database.
Jeremy Ellman is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sunderland.
Jeremy has a long standing interest in Natural Language Processing, and
was the project
manager of MABLe.
13.15 Discussion
13.20 Lunch and Exhibition
14.30 Introduction by Chair - Daniel Grasmick (SAP, Germany)
Daniel Grasmick is the Development Manager of the Multilingual
Technology Group (MLT) at SAP. The MLT Group currently supports two
commercial MT systems, one commercial TM system as well as all the SAP
in-house translation tools. The group offers linguistic and technical
support to a total of 100 in-house translators and up to 36 translation
agencies.
14.30 Controlling Input and Output of MT for Greater User Acceptance
Arendse Bernth (IBM, USA)
IBM has developed two tools: EasyEnglishAnalyzer (EEA) and the
Translation Confidence Index (TCI), that help a company maximise the
benefit of MT in the information dissemination process. The paper will
look at:
* how pre-editing with EEA improves the output of IBM's LMT MT system
for English-to-German. EEA points out ambiguities and English
constructions that are difficult to understand or difficult to
translate, and makes alternative suggestions.
* how TCI can be used with LMT to give an indication of the quality of
the translation.
Arendse Bernth specialises in Cotrolled Languages. Machine Translation
and Natural Language Semantics. He is a member of the Language Analysis
and Translation Group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre.
15.00 Discussion
15.05 Applying SAE J2450 Translation Quality Metric in Language
Evaluation
Projects
Joerg Schuetz (IAI, Germany)
Recommendations and standards are useful for setting up a common
framework for knowledge exchange in industrial environments. In the
context of the European Multidoc project, this session will explore:
* the impact of the recent translation quality metric for automotive
service information (J2450)
* a quality evaluation framework
Since 1985, Dr Schuetz has worked for the Institute of Applied
Information Sciences in Saarbrucken, where he is responsible for the
Institute's R&D as co-director. His current interests are in how to
combine Web technology and language technology (Networked MT) and in the
performance control of such NLP systems. He is also a member of the
EAMT Committee and the European Editor of the MT News International
Journal.
15.35 Discussion
15.40 Tea
16.00 Integrating Translation Technologies Using SALT
Gerhard Budin (University of Vienna)
16.30 Discussion
16.35 Translation Technology - the Next Generation
Sharon O'Brien (ALPNET, Ireland)
How has the use of translation technology in the last four years,
specifically translation memory and terminology management tools in the
IT sector, changed? What can technology bring to the translation
industry in the millennium?
This paper will discuss:
* migrating from Translation Memory to Translation Management Technology
* integration with content management systems and other NLP tools
* managing the global information process
Sharon O'Brien has worked in the localisation industry as a language
technology specialist since 1995. Currently, she heads the Language
Consulting Solutions Group for ALPNET, Inc. and is based in Dublin,
Ireland.
17.05 Discussion
17.10 Close of the Conference
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